Biografie von Walter Buckingham SWAN (1871-1966)

Birth place: Boston, MA

Addresses: Council Bluffs, IA; Omaha, NE

Profession: Painter, writer, lecturer

Studied: Lowell School Des.; BMFA with Sargent, Colcord, Kingsbury; Creighton Univ., Omaha, NE; Boston; Paris; London.

Exhibited: Soc. Indep. Artists, 1938, 1940; U.S. Nat. Mus., Wash., DC, 1942, 1943 (75 watercolors sponsored by Mexican Ambassador. Exhibited in many cities of the U.S. under auspices of Pan-American Union)

Member: North Shore AA; Gloucester SA; Ogunquit AC; Springfield AL; Soc. Indep. Artists.

Comments: Had summer studio at Lake Okoboji and painted annually in the Amana Colonies. Was designer for paper mills in Holyoke, MA and Springfield, MA for some years.

Sources: WW59; WW47; Ness & Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 203.